IntroductionMaking decisions about your health care needs as well as the choices that you would expect to make if you were not able to are very important reasons for advance care planning. An advance care plan coincides with the medical treatment received. Whether you contract an illness or you are involved in an accident that prevents you from making decisions to treat or not based off the prognosis leaves the decision solely to you and not family that might not share your same views. There are many situations that someone could find themselves in and would need and advance care plan, a directive that tells either the care providers or family members what your wishes are when faced with difficult decisions regarding your medical care. It is possible that you could find yourself in a coma brought on by a disease or an accident. Either way, the decision to continue treatment or not will be left up to your family if there is no advanced directive. If the situation is caused by an accident and you are still young and fairly healthy, you may want everything that could be done to revive you so that you may continue a normal life. However, if you are an elderly person and have been faced with an illness that requires continued treatment even if brought out of the coma, you may or may not want to continue treatment. These decisions, if not put in an advanced care plan, will not allow you to have a voice in your own treatment. Hospice care is another situation that you could be faced with when there is no further treatment that can cure your illness. Hospice is designed to ease the pain and suffering as you are reaching end of life. If an illness or accident has left you incapacitated and unable to speak or communicate, an advanced directive could convey your decisions for what type of treatment you desire. It may be your decision to live out your time with family and friends...

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Advance directive in a true definition means a written document that you will sign telling your surrogate what to do with your body when you’re sick or if you passed. The document indicates your choices about medical treatment; you can also name someone to make decisions about your medical treatment called a surrogate if you are unable to make these decisions. Basically a Advance directive is a way for your family to make medical decisions for your body...

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Advance Directives
Tamerla Glenn
HSM-320
October 14, 2012
Legal and Ethical Basis for Advance Directives
Advance directives could be defines as the legal documents that allow a person to convey his/her decisions about the end-of life care. In other terms, advance directives are the documents, which are used to communicate the wishes of a person about his/her health care...

...Advance Directives
Advance directives are legal documents that allow you to express your choices about a terminal illness and if death comes ahead of time. This is a way to for a person to communicate their wishes to family, friends and health care professionals. This will also help avoid confusion later on.
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...In this paper, I will discuss advance directives, what it is, and the reason for it. I will talk about the issues that are currently facing advance directives care and talk about whether it has failed, or not. Finally, I will prove my stand on the issues with evidence.
What is Advance Directives?
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Reflection Paper
I know that advance directives are widely advocated for all adult patients and are required for Medicare and Medicaid; it wasn’t until I took this class that I actually put thought into completing the Advanced Directives and/or the Durable Power of Attorney forms. After completing those forms I now have mixed emotions about growing old. The thought that one day I may be to incompetence to do things for myself is kind of scary. I...